Media Confidence in U.S. Matches 2016 Record Low
Americans' trust in the mass media's reporting matches its lowest point in Gallup's trend, largely because of Democrats' decreased trust.
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Americans' trust in the mass media's reporting matches its lowest point in Gallup's trend, largely because of Democrats' decreased trust.
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We will survive this, and move forward. so i am heartened. i am hopeful, plus my conversation is never complete unless i pay tribute to our four pillars of government. fourth pillar of american democracy, my voice rises. i beg your pardon. but it must be said. this maligning of the press, the fourth pillar of united states, that is trade of authoritarian. i have seen when the newspapers were burned because they spoke badly about the journal, badly about the dictator. these traits maligning of national assemblies, maligning of the peoples representative. look, you draw the -- connect the dots. ...
20 minutes ago. >> this is not about numbers at all. it is about the media. this is just a venue, another venue for him to diminish the media. as the congresswoman said, it's to undermine the credibility so people no longer pay attention to legitimate media sources. this means he controls all the information. this what people so fear in him are these authoritarian tendencies. every chance to put the media down, he will take advantage of this. >> suppose he accomplishes the things he set out to do. let's see he den grades the media, make us look like demonstrated liars, but he performs and achi...
What he had to say and it was this interesting strategy of lifting certain members of the media, putting other members of the media down. again, it's not new, right? we have seen this again and again from donald trump. i expect that come, you know, eight days from now, nine days from now, when we're sitting in that briefing room and donald trump eventually holds his first press conference at the white house, it will be very similar. >> okay. thanks so much, hallie jackson out in front of turump tower. let's bring in our panel, nbc's katy tur. she's been there since day one. gabe sherman, msnbc...